Association of Craniofacial Anthropometry and Personality with Impact of Metacognitive and Emotional Intervention among Medical Students: A Research Protocol

Abstract

Introduction: Physiognomic evaluation of the human face has been widely considered in computer-based visual applications, to know the characteristic properties of human. This had given rationality for the present study to be planned on craniofacial anthropometry and its relationship with personality traits in medical students. Aim: Evaluate the effectiveness of different craniofacial anthropometry; cephalic index, forehead width, forehead length, bizygomatic width, bigonial width, upper facial index, and facial index with the type of personality traits and impact of metacognitive and emotional interventions on personality among medical students. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional interventional analytical study on Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) undergraduate students with sample size of 293 will be conducted in Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, DMIMS, Wardha, Maharashtra, India. The age group of samples will be 18-30 years. The expected duration of study will be August 2022 to July 2025. The data collection will be carried out for a period of one and half year (January 2023 to June 2024). The tools for data collection shall be craniofacial anthropometric measurement, Big Five Personality Test (BFPT) questionnaire, meta- cognitive awareness inventory, Emotional Intelligence self-assessment Questionnaire (EIQ), Personal information Questionnaire (PIQ). Expected results: The results will be drawn by comparing Craniofacial Anthropometric Measurement with personality traits and effect of metacognitive and emotional intervention. Conclusion: The present study will be also a torchbearer for medical teachers and psychologist and behavioural medicine to understand individual’s personality by face cueing.

Keywords

• bizygomatic
• bigonial
• big five personality
• emotional intelligence
• upper facial